Nowadays, critical infrastructures operate a large number of highly interdependent, cyber-physical systems. Thus, incidents can have far-reaching cascading effects throughout the entire infrastructure, which need to be identified and estimated to realize a proper risk management. In this paper, we present a formal model to describe the propagation of a threat through the various physical and cyber assets within a critical infrastructure and the cascading effects this has on the entire infrastructure. We further show, how this model can be implemented into a prototypical tool, which allows to efficiently simulate the cascading effects of a given incident on the entire network of the infrastructure’s cyber-physical assets. The functionalities of the tool are demonstrated using a small demo set-up of a maritime port infrastructure. In this set-up, four incident scenarios both from the physical and cyber domain are simulated and the results are discussed.
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Schauer, S., Grafenauer, T., König, S., Warum, M., & Rass, S. (2020). Estimating cascading effects in cyber-physical critical infrastructures. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11777 LNCS, pp. 43–56). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37670-3_4
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